Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...space and time, paving the way for subsequent scholars to bring GIS tools to humanities work. In a sequence of sketches, Presner contends that Walter Benjamin, Michel de Certeau, Henri...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...of black and Hispanic citizens in innumerable ways. Any jurisdiction can remove the need for pre-clearance if it shows it has had a clean record of not denying the voting...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...this decentralized music culture. Minutes detail the name of each song leader, the page number(s) of song(s) each person led, the names of officers and committee members, these committees' reports,...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...sold and that she is running away to save her child" from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Read together, the "loyalist" plantation romance and the "fugitive" slave narrative speak to one another...
Frank Willis
...when school let out for summer and eat clam strips. Water- gate was where we stopped in a carpool one year to fetch the sickly boy for day camp, where...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...contributions, including those of Vidal, Sophie White, Mary Williams, and Emily Clark, elaborate on the many ways in which a "repressive legal and judiciary system" (15) drew upon past ideas...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...Charleston for many years,” McCandless writes at the outset, “I was vaguely aware that the Lowcountry had once been an unhealthy place. But only immersing myself in the eighteenth- and...